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Bronze star winner Joe Galloway on Veterans DayAward-winning military correspondent Joseph Galloway joins Midday to talk about the men and women who serve in the military, and the lessons we can learn from the wars they have fought. Galloway earned the Bronze Star for valor for rescuing a wounded soldier under heavy fire in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965.11:00 a.m.

Guests

Joseph Galloway: Longtime award-winning military correspondent for UPI, US News and McClatchy Newspapers. Author of "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" and a sequel, "We Are Soldiers Still." He served four tours of duty as a military correspondent in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, and was awarded the Bronze Star with V, the only such medal of valor awarded to a civilian by the Army in the Vietnam War. He is also co-author of "Triumph Without Victory: The Persian Gulf War."